THE TRAITOR (2019) | Haifa Film Festival (Masters)
At the 35th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Marco Bellocchio, with Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fausto Russo Alesi. Italy’s Academy Award Nominee It is the early 1980’s and an all-out war rages within the Sicilian Mafia. Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta flees to hide out in Brazil while […]
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BELLISSIMA (1951) | Haifa Film Festival (Haifa Classics)
At the 35th Haifa International Film Festival, the animated movie by Luchino Visconti, wth Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Gastone Renzelli, Tina Apicella, Tecla Scarano, Linda Sini. Copy digitally restored. When Cinecittà Studios puts out a casting call for a new child actress, they’re flooded with starry-eyed stage mothers and their talentless offspring. Anna Magnani plays one […]
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D.A.K.I.N.I | XL Akko International Fringe Theater Festival
On the occasion of the 19th edition of the Italian language week in the world: “The Italian Language on Stage”, in the framework of the XL Akko International Fring Theater Festival and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa, a show produced by AjaRiot Performing Arts Collective (Italy), directed by Isadora Pei and […]
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ROME OPEN CITY (1945) | Haifa Film Festival (Haifa Classics)
At the 35th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Roberto Rossellini, with Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Maria Michi, Marcello Pagliero, Nando Bruno, Vito Annichiarico, Harry Feist. Digitally restored copy. Anna Magnani – in her breakthrough role as the fiancée of a resistance member – stars in this classic drama about the Nazi occupation of […]
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MAIDEN | XL Akko International Fringe Theater Festival
On the occasion of the 19th edition of the Italian language week in the world: “The Italian Language on stage”, in the framework of the XL Akko International Fring Theater Festival and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa, a show coproduced by DOO | DIVANO OCCIDENTALE ORIENTALE performing arts group (Italy) and […]
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MARTIN EDEN (2019) | Haifa Film Festival (Golden Anchor Competition of Debut Films)
At the 35th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Pietro Marcello, with Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Vincenzo Nemolato, Marco Leonardi, Denise Sardisco. The sailor Martin Eden is inspired to educate, elevate, and remake himself as a writer following a chance encounter and romantic infatuation with the sophisticated, higher-class Elena. As Martin develops and intensely […]
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THE PASSION OF ANNA MAGNANI (2019) | Haifa Film Festival (Haifa Classics)
At the 35th Haifa International Film Festival, a docu-film by Enrico Cerasuolo. Director in attendance. Who can forget the face of Anna Magnani in Rome, Open City? Magnificent and ordinary, comic and tragic, the immense actress, emblem of neo-realism, revolutionized the representation of women. She impressed Hollywood with the power of her game and was […]
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XL AKKO INTERNATIONAL FRINGE THEATER FESTIVAL
On the occasion of the 19th edition of the Italian language week in the world: “The Italian Language on Stage”, in the framework of the XL Akko International Fring Theater Festival and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa, the Italian Fringe Theater arrives in Israel with two original shows: MAIDEN and […]
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MEETING LEONARDO. A PLAY ON LEONARDO DA VINCI | Theatrical performance for children
On the occasion of the 19th edition of the Italian language week in the world: “The Italian Language on Stage” and in the framework of the Leonardian Year, the Madatech Museum in Haifa, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Haifa, is pleased to invite all children and their parents to an original, fun and […]
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THE BEARS’ FAMOUS INVASION OF SICILY (2019) | Haifa Film Festival (The Family Show)
At the 35th Haifa International Film Festival, the animated movie by Lorenzo Mattotti, with Toni Servillo, Antonio Albanese, Linda Caridi, Maurizio Lombardi, Corrado Invernizzi. It all starts with Tonio, the Bear King’s son, who is kidnapped by hunters in the Sicilian mountains. When the harsh winter threatens his people with famine, King Léonce decides to invade […]
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